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16 I WORLD NEWS Passion Islam I April 2013
NATO stalls handover of Bagram
prisoners to Afghan government
The commander of NATO’s
International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan says a
full transfer of prisoners from the US
control to Afghan supervision will not
occur as long as they pose a threat to
foreign forces.
General Joseph Dunford said “If
there’s a threat to the force, we will
not conduct the transfer. If there are
people that need to be detained, we
will make sure they are detained.”
The Bagram Detention Center in
the northeastern province of Parwan
has become a source of controversy
between the Afghan government and
NATO as the Western military alliance
defies calls to hand over all the probably a difference of opinion. We happens and that Afghanistan’s
detainees to Kabul.
certainly don’t have anyone in the sovereignty comes into full exercise.”
The US military was scheduled to detention facility that we think doesn’t An agreement on the transfer of the
hand over Bagram and its estimated deserve to be there.”
controversial prison to Afghan forces
3,000 inmates to Afghan authorities. The Afghan government has said was signed in 2012.
However, the handover ceremony was in a presidential statement, “President The transfer had previously been
unexpectedly canceled.
Karzai stressed that all efforts must canceled last November.
Dunford also stated, “There’s be made to make sure the handover
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US panel urges military to use
bombing as bid to deter cyber attacks
A US military advisory panel has urged
the development of a special force
with own bombers, cruise missiles
and cyber weapons to respond to
a ‘devastating’ cyber attack on the
Pentagon’s computer system.
A new report by the Defense
Science Board (DSB), which advises
top officials of the US Defense
Department on technological threats
and challenges, states that the military
must adopt measures to “ensure
the President has options beyond a
nuclear-only response to catastrophic
cyber-attack,” the US-based Foreign
Policy magazine reports.
Written by DSB’s Task Force on
Resilient Military Systems, the report
suggests that the US “might have to
rely on nuclear weapons to retaliate
after a large-scale cyber attack,” the
article adds, while noting that American
defense officials have acknowledged
efforts to build “offensive cyber
capabilities to deter destructive cyber
attacks.”
To avert a nuclear response, the
report further calls for development of
an elite team of cyber and conventional
forces that are “heavily protected
against cyber attack and dedicated to
retaliating after such a strike.”
“Forces supporting this capability
are isolated and segmented from
general-purpose forces to maintain
the highest level of cyber resiliency at
an affordable cost. Nuclear weapons
would remain the ultimate response
and anchor the deterrence ladder,” the
DSB report states, as quoted in the
article.
The document further recommends
a number of weapons systems for
this special conventional deterrent
force: “Global selective strike systems
e.g. penetrating bomber, submarines
with long range cruise missiles,
Conventional Prompt Global Strike
(CPGS), survivable national and
combatant command.”
To put the plan together, the report
urges US military leaders to develop
“an updated Strategic Deterrence
Strategy, including the development
of cyber escalation scenarios and
red lines,” according to the influential
journal, which mainly covers issues
related to US national security and
foreign policy.
American officials have recently
expressed major concerns about
foreign-based cyber attacks on
computer networks of principal US
government agencies and industries.